+fizzymagic Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I'm interested in what people's total caching distances are. Naturally, that's because I think I have the biggest. There are two distances you can calculate: summed distance from your home coordinates or what I call the caching distance, which is the distance it would take to visit all the caches you've found, in the order you've found them. I do it with a database and spreadsheet; I know others who do it with a personal travel bug. Here are the rules I hold myself to: Distance from cache to cache only, in the order found. No including trips to/from home. Locationless caches only count if you record the actual location you found them. Likewise with locationless caches that were called virtual caches before locationless caches existed. For multicaches, use only the position of the final cache. Distance between legs does not count. For puzzle caches, use the distance to the actual cache location. Has anybody else done this? What's your total? Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 So your caching distance would be like a dot to dot game. Replacing the dots with caches? Is that the way your working it? Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 That's the basic idea. Quote Link to comment
Lyra Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 1,159.94 miles, but that includes caches I've hidden. I use a personal travel bug and that's how I calculated it. Always wear proper caching safety equipment! Quote Link to comment
+Tomebug Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 16,303 miles according to my personal TB. That includes caches done while visiting family members in different states. A cross-country move helped too! Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I started a personal TB on the evening of Dec 27 and it currently has a total distance travelled of 408.6 miles. - If the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call 'em biscuits. - Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I have no idea. I do not track this information. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 5600 miles according to the odometer on my GPS which is off 3/4 of the time. Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Smitherington Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I don't know my total mileage but I had to drive to Lexington KY from MI last Monday and I did three. So each find was over 200 miles. Plus my caching trip over Thanksgiving which included the following states: MI, IL, IA, MO, KS, OK, AR, IN. And that does not take into account all the local trips in Michigan including the upper peninsula. Add two caching trips to Canada too. I am not keeping track but this hobby may not be as cheap as I thought. But who cares? I forgot about the finds in NY when I went to the baseball hall of fame. Quote Link to comment
+Capt. Jack & 1st Mate Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 We haven't finished logging our PTB, but should have well over 1500 miles when done. Quote Link to comment
+bigcall Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 That's all without traveling much. My personal TB tracks the mileage. http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=3953 It takes a long time to load though with 367 finds to date. I had one cache owner delete all the finds when the cache went missing so my counter is off by one. Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean, and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space... one morning, I came to this glorious place. Quote Link to comment
luxem Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 What is this personal travel bug you speak of? [/n00b] Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 WOW! I am not sure if I can count that high. Back about 300 caches ago I was over 10,000 miles then. Let me know what you guys are doing for that PTB and I just might have to set one up and check it out. Although I am missing the numbers for a removed cache. It's like this. One week I might be in the Bend area, Then Spokane the next week then on the Oregon Coast then I might be in Montana then back to Clarkston etcetc. TTFN, logscaler and Red Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 I forgot to post my distance in my first post! It is almost 66,000 miles now (65,948.47, to be exact). I traveled a lot this fall, and got caches in the Netherlands and the Carribean. Since I will never catch the champions in sheer numbers, it's my only distinction. If you don't remember your exact cache ordering, you can still do a summation of the distances of your caches from your home. Mine is now at about 237,500 miles. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Well, of all the caches we've found within the 100 mile radius of our house, we went 53.2 miles. I used the distance from home to each cache for this. I guess I gould put a goto in my Venture for each out of state cache I've visited. Then add up those miles. There must be an easier way. Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I have recently been working on putting together an ExpertGPS file of all of my finds, so it was reasonably easy to calculate my caching distance. I don't have my finds ordered by find number yet, so all I can do at this time is a summation. That distance is currently 165,180.75 miles. I'll be interested in seeing what my ordered distance turns out to be. I'm expecting that it's around 50,000 miles. I have two trips to England, one to Pennsylvania and Virginia, one to Alaska and one to Mexico that give me the biggest boosts. Quote Link to comment
+Capt. Jack & 1st Mate Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 quote: PTB We haven't finished logging our PTB, but should have well over 1500 miles when done. Meant to say 'over 15,000 miles when done'. Should have some pretty good milage after a geocaching trip to Muai this spring also. Oh yeah, logscaler, look for our TB named Travel Hound to see how we used our PTB. Fun to see the map of your travels. Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 I've orderd a batch of TBs. I was planning on using one for a Personal TB. But how would you go back to all the ones you've been to? Just make a note drop it in and then remove it? Then you could just delete the post after you are done right? Wouldn't this confuse some of the cache owners? I'm curious to see how far I've gone. Its prob not that far. Around 1000 or so. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can just edit your 'find' entry to drop the bug. This way you won't send an email to the cache owner (or anyone who is watching it). Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Duh... I didn't think of that. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Well, I finished organizing my ExpertGPS file of cache finds, which let me finally determine what my caching distance is. It turns out that I underestimated it. It currently stands at 64,002.70 miles. My summation is now at 165,378.47 miles. Fun stuff (I've always enjoyed stats)! Quote Link to comment
+Seattle Seekers Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 Moun10Bike, It sounds to me like you've got too much time on your hands! How do you manage to do so much caching, work a full time job and still have enough time to work out these stats? Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 The stats are the easy part! The most time consuming thing was ordering my cache finds in my ExpertGPS file. Then, it was simple to export the data to Excel and use a formula to count up the cumulative and summed distances. As for doing a lot of caching, I'm one of the slower people around anymore it seems. There are people going at double or triple my pace. THOSE are the people you should ask! Quote Link to comment
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